Sophie's hearing aids are here. She is really excited. We ordered the blue ones, but there was a mix up, so she has red ones until the new blue ones come in.
She has the Sonic Ion 200 BTE (Behind the Ear) hearing aids.
Tom and Sophie's audiologist is Dr. Alan Young with Hearing Zone.
Testing and fitting a 4 year is obviously a challenge and he is great and always patient with Sophie. He is the only audiolgist that we have worked with that recognized that a 4 year old could be able to lipread (aka speechread). He truly understands the unique needs of patients with RSHL.
Sophie has he father's family hereditary Reverse Slope Hearing loss.
Her loss starts at a 60dB loss and gets as bad as 80dB loss in the 500hz to 2000hz range. She has perfect hearing - 0dB loss - above 7000hz.
If you would like more information about this kind of rare hearing loss:
The Bizarre World of Extreme Reverse-Slope Hearing Loss
After her first day with hearing aids - she is not so sure that she likes all this new noise - but she loves hearing the Jonas Brothers and Jack Johnson better!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
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